Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
2. (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
3. (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
REFORMre-form' (yacar): The word in the Revised Version (British and American) is found only in Leviticus 26:23, in the phrase "ye will not be reformed." The meaning is, "to be instructed," or, more fully, "to let one's self be chastened," i.e. by God's discipline to learn the lessons of this chastening.
The Hebrew word is the same in a similar connection in Jeremiah 6:8, where it is rendered, "Be thou instructed," and in Jeremiah 31:18, "I was chastised." Psalm 2:10 ("instructed"); Proverbs 29:19 ("corrected") use the Hebrew term of admonition by the words of man.
The King James Version also has "reform" in 2 Esdras 8:12; The Wisdom of Solomon 9:18.
Greek
2735. katorthoma -- very worthy deed, public reform ... very worthy deed, public
reform. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration:
katorthoma Phonetic Spelling: (kat-or'-tho-mah) Short Definition: anything
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2735.htm - 6k1357a. diorthoma -- a correction, a reform
... 1357, 1357a. diorthoma. 1357b . a correction, a reform. Transliteration:
diorthoma Short Definition: reforms. Word Origin from diorthoo ...
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1357. diorthosis -- a correction, a reform
... a correction, a reform. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: diorthosis
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-or'-tho-sis) Short Definition: improvement ...
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365. ananeoo -- to renew
... renew. From ana and a derivative of neos; to renovate, ie Reform -- renew. see GREEK
ana. see GREEK neos. (ananeousthai) -- 1 Occurrence. 364, 365. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
3256. yasar -- to discipline, chasten, admonish... bind, chasten, chastise, correct, instruct, punish,
reform, reprove,. A primitive
root; to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively
... /hebrew/3256.htm - 6k 3190. yatab -- to be good, well, glad, or pleasing
... 1), merry (3), pleasant (1), please (1), please the better (1), pleased (2), pleased*
(9), pleases* (1), pleasing (2), prosper (4), reform (1), seemed good (2 ...
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Library
Reform
... Reform. A Sermon (No.238). Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 13th, 1859, by
the. REV. CH SPURGEON. At the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. ...
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A Work of Reform.
... 26. A WORK OF REFORM. [Illustration: Chapter header.] The work of Sabbath
reform to be accomplished in the last days is foretold ...
/.../white/the great controversy between christ and satan /26 a work of reform.htm
Jehoshaphat's Reform
... THE SECOND BOOK OF CHRONICLES JEHOSHAPHAT'S REFORM. 'And Jehoshaphat his
son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/jehoshaphats reform.htm
The Beginnings of Church Reform
... The Church and the Empire CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS OF CHURCH REFORM. Previous
to the ... of landowners. [Sidenote: Church reform.]. Thus ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter i the beginnings of.htm
Progress of Reform in Germany.
... 10. PROGRESS OF REFORM IN GERMANY. ... In the work of reform, Luther had been urged forward
by the Spirit of God, and had been carried beyond himself. ...
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A Work of Reform
... Chapter 26 A Work of Reform. The work of Sabbath reform to be accomplished
in the last days is foretold in the prophecy of Isaiah ...
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Progress of Reform in Germany
... Chapter 10 Progress of Reform in Germany. ... In the work of reform, Luther had been
urged forward by the Spirit of God, and had been carried beyond himself. ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 10 progress of reform.htm
The Anglican Reform
... CHAPTER I. THE ANGLICAN REFORM. The Pre-Reformation Service-book. ... [25] But there
was one fatal obstacle to any real reform. Impediments to all real reform. ...
/.../luckock/studies in the book of common prayer/chapter i the anglican reform.htm
Geological Reform.
... XI. GEOLOGICAL REFORM. "A great reform in geological speculation seems
now to have become necessary." "It is quite certain that ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/xi geological reform.htm
Evidences of Regeneration.
... 7. Saints are interested in, and sympathize with, every effort to reform mankind,
and promote the interests of truth and righteousness in the earth. ...
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Thesaurus
Reform (28 Occurrences)... or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change
from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to
reform a profligate man
.../r/reform.htm - 16kReclaim (1 Occurrence)
... 6. (vt) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to
draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. ...
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Josiah (51 Occurrences)
... TRAITS OF HIS REIGN 1. Situation at the Beginning 2. Finding of the Law 3. The Great
Reform 4. Disaster at Megiddo The name given 6 years before the death of ...
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Reformation (24 Occurrences)
... Acts 26:20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the
region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to ...
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Zephaniah (11 Occurrences)
... The latter's reign falls naturally into two parts, separated by the great reform
of 621. ... When Zephaniah preached, this reform was still in the future. ...
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Lips (199 Occurrences)
... not of meaningless dumb ritual, but of "words"-hymns and prayers, expressive of
real gratitude and of actual needs-or perhaps pledges of repentance and reform. ...
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Lamp-stand (17 Occurrences)
... Revelation 2:5 remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first
works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand ...
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Whoredom (58 Occurrences)
... YLT). Revelation 2:21 and I did give to her a time that she might reform
from her whoredom, and she did not reform; (YLT). Revelation ...
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Calves (34 Occurrences)
... not of meaningless dumb ritual, but of "words"-hymns and prayers, expressive of
real gratitude and of actual needs-or perhaps pledges of repentance and reform. ...
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Refused (89 Occurrences)
... 9 and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of
God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give ...
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Resources
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